Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-25
State 11eps.

=. ii. Dolan of Rutland fell on the ele-
waited railroad track in New York Friday
and was literally cut to pieces.
Warren has Just lost its oldest inhabit-
ant in the person of Mrs. Sarah Allen,
who was in her Goth year.
DIR. w. S. Webb of Burlington is to
have steam launch built by James
Averill of Champlain, n. Y.
The President has appointed Herbert
w. Martin postmaster at Bennington and
n. p. Bowman at st. Johnsburv.
The medical department of the L. V.
NJ. at Burlington has opened with an at
tendance of nearly l75 students.
Three towns, Cabot, Stockbridge and
Weston, voted to return to the old district
system of schools at the March meetings.
Mrs. Barrett, mother of Hon. Rock
wood Barrett of Rutland. has been strick-
ell with apopleXy. She is 81 years of
age.
The sixth session of the training school
for nurses will open at the Mary Fletcher
hospital, Burlington, on Thursday, May
). and continue four weeks.
y horse which had reached the age of
3S years died in Burlington the other day.
For 30 years it had been the property of
Mr.. f. c. LOOMS of that city.
St. Johnsbury baseball enthusiasts
are trying to get up strong nine in the
village, and talk of securing Smith and
Allen of last years Harvard nine.
Rev. NJ. A. Wilcox. formerly a Baptist
pastor at Burlington, has been invited to
become president of a college at Kalama-
700, Mich, with a salary of $500.
At Bennington, saturday, Tom Stewart
was fined 500 with an alternative sem
tence of over 5000 days in the House of
Correction. for illegal liquor-selling.
Plans for extending the Burlington
breakwater about $50 feet have been ap-
proved by the board of engineers. and
there is prospect that work may be
begun the coming summer.
Tho trustees of the soldiers home are of
the opinion that the failure of the depend
ent pension bill to pass will double the
number of inmates in the new home the
first year after it is opened.
Rev. 5. q. Pratt, who has been for nine
years pastor of the Baptist church in st.
Adams and who resigned his pastorate a
few days ago, will take holy orders and
join the ranks of the Episcopal clergy.
a public meeting was held at Burlng-
ton Monday night in the interests of
yachting on Lake Champlan. W. II. II.
Murray is forming new yacht club
which he says is well supported by the
best people.
Edward c. Redington, one of Yer
mont's leading tinanciers, died Monday
at his home in Bradford, aged IS. He
was born in Keene, n. H., and had been
connected with various banks in the east
ern part of the State.
Henry Bowers of Crown Point Center
was killed at Fair Haven Thursday MORN
ing by the cars. He was driving across
the railroad track, when the locomotive
struck the sleigh, completely demolishing
it, and killing Mr.. Bowers.
The st. Johnsbury Young Mems
Christian association celebrated their 81 st
anniversary Sunday night, with addresses
by III. c. Moore of Boston and by local
clergymen. The association are flourish
ing and their last years expenses were
$1,000.
Henry y. Lee of Rutland was found
dead on the highway in Benson. 1t is
supposed that he was travelling on foot
to visit son at keesevile. \. V. and
becoming chilled, fell by the way and
froze to death. He was seventy-five wears
of age.
1t is reported, says the Rutland Herald
that Mr.. +. ID. Kinds of Pittsford has
refused $1,000 for a two-year-old colt
sired by waldo" and that DR.. w. 5.
Webb of Burlington has bought king
Wilkes" record 2:22 IL, sired by the ia
nous stallion George Wilkes"
St Johnsbury liquor-dealers were raid
ed the other day. At the st. Johnsbury
House 10 gallons in bulk and 80 quart
bottles were seized at the Avenue House
10 casks were seized, containing from one
quart to 20 gallons. In the saloons raid
ed nothing was found.
Robert Bowman has been sentenced to
four years in State prison by the Rutland
county court. He is forry-eight years of
age and has already spent 22years in Jail.
When the present sentence is completed
he will be 80 years old and will have
spent just one-half of his life in prison.
DIR. Middleton Goldsmith of Rutland,
one of the leading physicians in the State,
has given $4,000 to the New York Patho-
logical society, the income to be used TO